Healer Hut

Long before anatomy was understood, healers kept armies alive through observation, intuition, and inherited botanical knowledge. The Healer's Hut of Antiquity is the first field station where wounded warriors are brought after battle: crushed limbs are splinted with wood and leather, bleeding wounds packed with moss and spider silk, fevers treated with willow bark tinctures that unknowingly contained salicylic acid. Ritual chants accompanied every procedure because the supernatural and the medical were indistinguishable. In gameplay the Healer's Hut provides a slow passive regeneration bonus to all military units stationed nearby and enables the Herbalist support unit who can follow your warriors into combat. Without this structure your early armies bleed out between battles, losing elite veterans who cannot be easily replaced in the brutal attrition of ancient warfare.